@aliasmode/anyfetch 0.8.0 → 0.8.2

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  2. package/package.json +6 -6
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  - Read pages: `anyfetch fetch <url> [<url>...] --format markdown`
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  ```
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- **Make it the default.** To have the agent use Anyfetch and not its built-in tools, turn the built-ins off:
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+ **Make it the default.** Anyfetch tells the agent to use its tools in place of the built-in web tools. In our test with Claude Code, the agent then chose Anyfetch for 8 of 8 web tasks. Before, it chose Anyfetch for 2 of 8. To take the choice away, turn the built-ins off:
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  - Claude Code, in `~/.claude/settings.json`: `"permissions": { "deny": ["WebFetch", "WebSearch"] }`
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  - Codex, in `~/.codex/config.toml`: `web_search = "disabled"`
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  Three things to know about this test. The question writer used Anyfetch to check each answer, so the first group has only pages that Anyfetch can read. The Financial Times was on the writer's list and has no question: its articles need a subscription. Thirty of the questions are one day older than the test; 28 of their answers were checked on the source page again that day. Every answer is in [`bench/results/tasks.tsv`](bench/results/tasks.tsv).
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+ We also read the same 97 sites with eight other tools, each with its default settings and no API key:
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+ | Tool | Pages read |
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+ | **Anyfetch** | **82** |
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+ | Exa MCP (hosted, answers from stored copies) | 78 |
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+ | Scrapling, stealth browser | 71 |
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+ | Scrapling, plain HTTP | 69 |
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+ | Hermes Agent `web_extract` (hosted readers) | 68 |
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+ | Crawl4AI | 66 |
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+ | Jina Reader | 61 |
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+ | Playwright MCP | 52 |
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+ | DuckDuckGo MCP server | 49 |
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+ How each one ran, and what to know before you compare, is in [`bench/other-tools/NOTES.md`](bench/other-tools/NOTES.md). The full ranking with every site is on [aliasmode.com](https://aliasmode.com/anyfetch/best-web-fetch-tools-for-ai-agents/).
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  The per-site results are in [`bench/results/`](bench/results). Sites change their rules often, and results differ between networks, so run it yourself:
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  ```sh
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  "name": "@aliasmode/anyfetch",
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- "version": "0.8.0",
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+ "version": "0.8.2",
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  "description": "Web search and web fetch for AI agents, with no API keys. Reads the sites that refuse AI agents.",
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  "keywords": ["mcp", "mcp-server", "web-search", "web-fetch", "ai-agents", "claude-code", "codex", "cursor"],
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  "license": "Apache-2.0",
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  "files": ["run.js"],
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  "engines": { "node": ">=16" },
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  "optionalDependencies": {
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- "@aliasmode/anyfetch-darwin-arm64": "0.8.0",
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- "@aliasmode/anyfetch-darwin-x64": "0.8.0",
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- "@aliasmode/anyfetch-linux-arm64": "0.8.0",
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- "@aliasmode/anyfetch-linux-x64": "0.8.0",
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- "@aliasmode/anyfetch-win32-x64": "0.8.0"
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+ "@aliasmode/anyfetch-darwin-arm64": "0.8.2",
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+ "@aliasmode/anyfetch-darwin-x64": "0.8.2",
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+ "@aliasmode/anyfetch-linux-arm64": "0.8.2",
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+ "@aliasmode/anyfetch-linux-x64": "0.8.2",
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+ "@aliasmode/anyfetch-win32-x64": "0.8.2"
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  }
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  }